IP Merchandise Lead

📋 Description

• Build and manage the company-wide IP merchandise manufacturing and sourcing partner network.
• Collaborate with IP POs from concept to production to ensure feasible specs and cost structures.
• Negotiate major terms with domestic/international partners; manage contracts with Legal/Finance and
• Establish operations for online and in-house merch shops; use sales, inventory, and settlement data
• Consolidate manufacturing, product and transaction histories to create reusable assets across IP
• Develop scalable post-order areas (inventory, logistics, import/export, settlements) with relevant

🎯 Requirements

• Experience turning physical merchandise (goods, characters, content, entertainment, brands) into
• Led manufacturing/sourcing and vendor management: supplier discovery, quoting/costing, sampling
• Experience communicating with overseas partners in English.
• Understanding of end-to-end IP or product lifecycle, including risks at each stage.
• Ability to align diverse internal/external demands and drive feasible alternatives to reach
• Ability to structure problems and create new processes/ operating models in environments without

🎁 Benefits

• Experience in gaming/entertainment/IP, fandom-based products, or online/offline merch channels is a
• Opportunity to propose product/business opportunities and translate them into results.
• Experience operating overseas manufacturing/sourcing networks is valuable.
• Hands-on with merch stores or commerce channels, inventory, and logistics processes.
• Background in establishing new organizations or operating frameworks.